Articles for your Literature Review:  Each student must locate 2 peer-reviewed RESEARCH articles on the selected topic. The UH library has created a resource for our class to help you find appropriate peer-reviewed articles and APA citations. Articles be either RESEARCH articles or articles from a government website.
    After reading the articles, the student should
o    Create a bulleted summary of EACH article.  The bulleted summary should include at minimum 8 big ideas for EACH article.  If you cant identify 8 big ideas, then you need to locate a different article. The 8 bulleted summary points should be IN YOUR OWN WORDS.  Dont quote the authors and put a citation DONT COPY THE SENTENCE FROM THE ARTICLE.  It should be written in your words, otherwise its plagiarism.  Each bullet point should be written as a complete sentence.
o    Each article needs to include an APA-formatted reference which includes the author(s), title, journal name etc.  Use the APA Reference Doc in the Assignment Folder on BBL to correctly format your APA References. 
o    To receive full credit, your information needs to
o    a) be relevant to your topic;
o    b) focused on elementary age/early childhood age;
o    c) written with no spelling/grammatical errors and in complete sentences;
o    d) written in a robust, meaningful, informative way.
o    When uploading a template into Blackboard.  Save as a Microsoft Word document. Save in the following format:  last name.first name Part A Lit Review